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HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – It is National Health Center Week and Congressman Richard Neal was in Holyoke to honor the occasion. Neal was joined by Mayor Alex Morse to speak with doctors, nurses, and other staff at the health center about the strides they’ve been making in addressing health issues in the community. Holyoke Health Center provides services to some of the states… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Congressman Richard Neal expressed fear about what he sees as a disturbing pattern regarding these mass shootings. Neal told 22News, the people committing these horrific crimes are isolated, troubled young men. The Springfield Democrat said it’s too easy for men with mental problems to purchase weapons. The congressman supports a longer waiting… Read more »

Richard E. Neal, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts’s 1st Congressional District in the House and is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. For three decades, the House of Representatives and its Ways and Means Committee have been the site of my life’s work. I never aspired to be a senator or governor or president. Instead, I learned arcane House rules and… Read more »

The head of the US congressional committee responsible for trade policy has warned Britain that a trade deal with the United States will not happen if the Belfast Agreement is jeopardised. Representative Richard Neal said that Congress, and not the US president, writes trade agreements. Speaking to the Irish Times ahead of Mr Johnson’s visit… Read more »

The head of the US congressional committee responsible for trade policy has warned Britain that a trade deal with the United States will not happen if the Belfast Agreement is jeopardised. Representative Richard Neal said that Congress, and not the US president, writes trade agreements. Speaking to the Irish Times ahead of Mr Johnson’s visit to… Read more »

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal is gearing up for what he believes will be "strong negotiations" on the extension of various federal tax programs. One of those is investment tax credits specifically for renewable energy. Neal held a "prelude" meeting with Berkshire Gas on Monday and is expected to see the company's parent organization Avangrid's wind farm in… Read more »

A bill to prop up financially ailing multiemployer pension plans advanced in Congress on Wednesday as an influential House panel approved a proposal that would protect benefits promised to more than a million workers nationally, including tens of thousands in Massachusetts. The measure, introduced in January by Representative Richard Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, was passed by the… Read more »

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, warned Tuesday of the damage that would be done by overturning Obamacare, just hours before oral arguments were to set to begin in a court case that could undo the Affordable Care Act. A panel of federal judges in New Orleans is taking up the future of Obamacare, hearing from states that argue it is… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD — A sense of urgency was evident among local politicians at a briefing on the 2020 census at Springfield City Hall on Monday. Conducted every ten years, the census has become a point of contention as the Trump administration attempts to add a question about individuals’ citizenship status. Census Bureau experts and critics of the question say it would discourage… Read more »

LENOX — On a sultry summer afternoon on the grounds of Shakespeare & Company, North Adams Mayor Thomas Bernard recited: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ..." "... that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," concluded Ken Werner, chairman of the… Read more »